In May 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration released a lengthy briefing document on an experimental medication for a rare autoimmune form of vasculitis that often damages the kidneys and lungs.

At first, Samantha Siegel ascribed her fatigue to being a physician and a mother to three young children during the pandemic. The persistent cough? Likely the smoke from nearby wildfires. But then, ...

Migratory birds take flight, sometimes by the billions, under the cover of night, guided by celestial cues. Many depart just after dusk, timing their flight to coincide with rising atmospheric ...

Once a clinical trial is completed, the clock is supposed to start ticking. For certain trials, researchers have one year to upload the results of their study to a public database maintained by the ...

Far too often, the advice offered to junior scientists in my orbit boils down to one instruction: “Delete your social media account.” The advice is easy to understand. On many platforms, scientists ...

Imagine pulling away from a stop sign on a busy street after looking left and right, but not looking left again. A fast SUV coming from the left T-bones your car. In all likelihood, the car is totaled ...

Louise Birkedal Glenthøj has worked with patients with serious psychiatric disorders for more than a decade. She knew that anorexia was a tough condition to treat, and that even after traditional ...

The vagus nerve looks like a long white string that begins in the brainstem and travels down through the neck into the chest, where it branches to organs including the heart and lungs, and down into ...

Welcome to Entanglements. In this episode, hosts Brooke Borel and Anna Rothschild are joined by Undark editor-in-chief Tom Zeller Jr. to talk about the show’s successes and failures, and about their ...

Americans tend to express discontent during midterm congressional elections. In 1974, voters punished Republicans over the Watergate scandal, and they did so again in 2006 over the Iraq War and the ...